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- NATION, Page 23American NotesNEW YORKHigh School Exam Scam
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- For high school students in New York State, the Regents
- exams are a crucial rite of passage: doing well greatly
- improves their chances of getting into college. Last week
- thounsands of students learned that much of their cramming would
- go to waste, when the New York Post splashed the answer sheet
- to the Regents chemistry exam across its front page. An angry
- state education commissioner, Thomas Sobol, postponed the test.
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- The Post claimed that thousands of bootleg copies of answers
- to various Regents exams were being sold for as much as $2,000
- a copy. A reporter was able to obtain the chemistry answer sheet
- in 15 minutes by placing two telephone calls. This was not the
- first case of exam scam. A former yeshiva student was recently
- arrested for selling copies of tests last year. If convicted,
- he could be sentenced to twelve years in prison.
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